1.

Determine the internal pressure of cylindrical tank 500 mm internal diameter, 20

mm thick and 3 m length if stresses limited to 140 Mpa
A. 10.06 MPa B. 10.53 C. 11.20 Mpa D. 12.88 Mpa
2. Determine the bursting steam pressure of a steel shell with diameter of 20 inches
and made of 5/16 steel plate. The joint efficiency is a 80% and a tensile strength is
63,000 psi.
A. 2,445.6 psi B. 3,150.0 psi C. 5,233.4 psi D. 4,736A psi
3. A water tank 10 m x 12 is completely filled with water. Determine the minimum
thickness of the plate if stress is limited to 50 Mpa.
A. 11.77 mm B. 12.66 mm C. 14.55 mm D. 12.44 mm
4. Determine the safe wall thickness of a 50 inches steel tank with internal pressure
of 8 Mpa. The ultimate tress is 296 Mpa. The factor of safety to use is 3.
A. 2 in B. 3 in C. 5 in D. 4 in
5. The internal pressure of a 400 mm inside diameter cylindrical tank is 10 Mpa and
thickness is 25 mm. Determine the stress developed if joint efficiency is 95%.
A. 80 MPa B. 21 Mpa C. 86.75 Mpa D. 78.42 Mpa
6. A cylinder has maximum of 2500 kg while the pressure is 2,550 kpa. If the uitimate
stress is 55,000 Kpa and factor of safety of 4, find the required wall thickness of the
cylinder.
A. 8.45 mm B. 11.42 mm C. 9.34 mm D. 10.26 mm
7. A spherical tank 15 mm thick has an internal pressure of 5 Mpa. The joint
efficiency is 96% and stress is limited to 46875 Kpa. Find the inner diameter of the
tank.
A. 150 mm B. 200 mm C. 250 mm D. 540 mm
8. A spherical tank has a diameter of 10 m and 80 cm thickness. If tangential stress
of tank is 16 Mpa, find the maximum internal pressure of the tank can carry if the wall
thickness is 25.4 cm.
A. 1625.60 kpa B. 1863.45 kpa C. 2357.43 kpa D. 3422.45 kpa
9. A cylindrical tank has an inside diameter of 5 in and is subjected internal pressure
of 500 psi. If maximum stress is 1200 psi, determine the required thickness.
A. 1.0 in. B. 1.21 C. 1.4 in. D. 1.6 in.
10. A thickness of cylindrical tank is 50 mm. The internal diameter is 300 mm and
has an tangential stress of 8423.58 Kpa. Determine the maximum internal pressure.
A. 20 MPa B. 25 Mpa C. 30 Mpa D. 2358.41 kpa
11. A round vertical steel tank has an inside diameter of 3 m and is 6 m in height It
contains gasoline with a density of 750 kg/m3. If the allowable tensile stress is 25
Mpa, find the minimum thick required.
A. 2.65 mm B. 2.85 mm C. 3.65 mm D. 1.82 mm
12. A cylinder having an internal diameter of 18 inches and an external diameter of
30 inches is subjected to an internal pressure of 8:090 psi. If the hoop stress at the
inner is 13,000 psi, find the external pressure.
A. 1280 psi B. 1384 psi C. 1450 psi D. 1653 psi
13. A cylinder having an internal diameter of 16 in and wall thickness of 6 inches is
subjected to an internal pressure of 65 Mpa and external pressure of 13Mpa.
Determine the hoop stress at the outer
A. 23.58 Mpa B. 28.45 Mpa C.37.42 Mpa D. 33.45 Mpa
14. The pressure inside the cylindrical tank varies from 800 kpa to 3200 kpa
continuously. The diameter of shell is 1.6 m. Find the wall thickness if yield point is
460 Mpa, endurance strength is 200 Mpa and factor of safety of 3.
A. 18.34 mm B. 24.83 C. 20.45 mm D. 28:45 mm
15. Determine the bursting steam pressure of a steel shell with diameter of 12 inches
and made of 1/4 thick steel plate. The joint efficiency is at 85% and the tensile
strength is 64 ksi.
A. 4234.32 psi B. 8382.44 psi C.4533.33 psi D. 5345.55 psi
16. Determine the safe wall thickness of a 26 inches steel tank with internal pressure
of 8 Mpa. The yield stress of mate is at 280 Mpa. The factor of safety is 3.
A. 23.23 m B. 28.30 mm C. 30.12 mm D. 39.23 mm
17. A water tank 10 m x 12 m is completely filled with water. Determine the minimum
thickness of the plate if stress is limited to 50 Mpa.
A.11.77 mm B. 14.55 mm C. 12.66 mm D. 12.44 mm
18. Determine the bursting steam pressure of a steel shell with diameter of 10 inches
and made of 1⁄4 inch thick steel plate. The joint efficiency is at 70% and the tensile
strength is 60 ksi.
A. 4200 psi B. 10.5 ksi C. 42.8 ksi D. 8500 psi
19. Compute the cutting speed in fpm of a workpiece with 2 inches diameter and
running at 100 rpm?
A. 72 B. 102 C. 62 D 52
20. Compute the safe wall thickness of a 76.2 cm diameter s tank. The tank is
subjected to 7.33 Mpa pressure and the steel material has yield stress of 215.4 Mpa.
The factor of safety to use is 3.
 A. 1 1/2 inches B. 3.89 cm C. 4.09 cm D. 3.59 cm
21. A cylinder tank with 10 inches inside diameter contains oxygen gas at 2500 psi.
Calculate the required wall thickness in millimetre under stress of 28,000 psi.
A. 10.54 B. 11.34 C. 10.24 D. 12.24
22. Determine the bursting steam pressure of a hemispherical steel shell with a
diameter of 100 inches and made of 0.0635 m thick steel plate. The joint efficiency is
80% and the tensiie strength is 60,000 psi.
A. 4,020 psi B. 4,200 psi C. 2,400 psi D. 2,040 psi
23. A 16 mm plate is lapped over and secured by fillet weld on the inside and outside
to form a penstock 1.5 meter in diameter. Determine the safe internal pressure,
assuming an allowable stress of 140 Mpa on the plate and an allowable shear stress
of 90 Mpa on the throat side of the 14 mm fillet weld.
A. 2.376 Mpa B. 3.590 Mpa C. 2.843 Mpa D. 1.695 Mpa
24. A squared and ground ends spring has a pitch of 20 mm, wire diameter of 12.5
mm. If there are 12 actual numbers of coils the deflection when spring is compressed
to its solid length.
A. 78 mm B. 75 mm C. 77 mm D. 79 mm
25. A spring with plain end has 15 active coils diameter of 6 mm and pitch of 10 mm.
If spring rate is 100 KN/m, determine the solid force.
A. 4 KN B. 5 KN C. 6 KN D. 7 KN
26. A spring rate has a spring rate of 30 KN/m. If wire diameter is 10 mm with a
mean diameter of 70 mm, determine the number of active coils. G = 80 GN/m2.
A. 6.54 B. 7.82 C. 8.42 D. 9.72
27. A spring has a load of 50 lb. with a spring index of 8. If stress induced is 90,000
psi, determine the wire diarrieter.
A. 0.058 in. B. 0.828 in. C. 0.452 in. D. 0.1157 in.
28. It is found that a load of 50 lb. an extension coil spring deflects 8.5 in. What load
deflect the spring 2.5 in?
A. 10.641b. B. 12.48 lb. C. 13.48 lb. D. 4.70 lb.
29. A spring sustain 200 ft-lb of energy with deflection. of 3 in. Assume that the main
coil diameter is 7 times the wire diameter and allowable stress of 100,000 psi,
determine the wire diameter.
A. 0 .416 in. B. 0.321 in. C. 0.568 in. D. 0.672 in.
30. A weight of 100 lbs, strikes a coil spring from a height of 18 inches and deflects
the spring of 6 inches. Find the average force acting on the spring.
A. 600 lb. B. 700lb. C. 800 lb. D. 900 lb.
31. If it is determined experimentally that a road of 20 kg applied to an extension coil
spring will provide a deflection of 200 mm. What load will deflect the spring 60 mm.
A. 4 kg B. 5 kg C. 6 kg D. 7 kg
32. Three extension coil spring are hooked in series and supports a weight of 70 kg.
One spring has a spring rate of 0.209 kg/mm. and the other two have spring rates of
0.643 kg/mm. Find the deflection.
A. 346.71 mm B. 389.30 mm C. 426.71 mm D. 552.66 mm
33. Four compression coil spring in parallel support a load of 360 kg. Each spring
has a gradient of 0.717 kg/mm
A. 125.52 mm B. 132.52 mm C. 138.52 mm D. 145.52 mm
34. A spring has a diameter of 25 mm and 12 active coils. If a load of a 10 KN is
applied it deflects 75 mm. Determine the mean diameter of the spring G = 80 GN/m2.
A. 20 mm B. 134.65 mm C. 150.34 mm D. 40 mm
35. A coil spring is to hay mean diameter of 50 mm and is to support a load of 1000
N. The allowable working stress is 415 Mpa and the modulus of elasticity in shear is
80 Gpa. Find the wire diameter of the spring in mm.
A. 7.195 mm B. 5.719 mm C. 5.197 mm D. 1.579 mm
36. Find the tooth thickness of a 14 deg. Involute gear having a diametral pitch of 6.
A. 5.33 mm B. 6.65 mm C. 8.45 mm D. 12.36 mm
37. A gear set having a gear ratio of 3 is to be used at a center distance of 10
inches. If the has 60 teeth, what must be the circular pitch?
A. 0.7236 in B. 0.7851 in. C. 0.8970 in. D. 0.7283 in.
38. Compute the speed of the gear mounted in a 52.5 mm diameter shaft receiving
power from a prime motor with 250 hp.
A. 2182 rpm B. 2081 rpm C. 2265 rpm D. 2341 rpm
39. Find the distance between centers of a pair of gear, one of which has 12 teeth
and the other 37 teeth. The diametral pitch is 8.
A. 3 in. B. 4 in C. 5 in D. 6 in
40. Tw parallel shafts have an angular veloqty ratio of 3 to 1 are connected by gears,
the largest of which has 54 teeth. Find the number of teeth of smaller
A. 14 B. 16 C. 12 D. 18
41. All four compression coil spring support one load of 400 kg. All four springs are
erranlf.,..c.iir1 parallel and rated same at 0.709 kg/mm. Compute deflection in mm.
A. 564 B. 1457 C. 171 D. 141
42. A force of 1.1 KN is acting on a 7.5 active coils with wire diameter of 13 mm. The
outside diameter of coil is 117 mm and G = 80 GW/m2. Determine the deflection.
A. 27.6 mm B. 29.8 mm C. 32.5 mm D. 34.6 miff
43: A spring with plain ends has 15 active coils diameter of 6 mm and pitch of 10
mm. If spring rate is 100 KN/m, determine the solid force.
A. 4 KN B. 5 KN C. 6 KN D. 7 KN
44. Compute deflection of a 16 coils helical ring having a load of 120 kg. The
modulus of elasticity in shear of spring is 100 Gpa, outside diameter of 10 cm and
with 10 mm wire diameter. The spring is squared and ground ends.
A. 96.12 mm B. 90.43 mm C. 102.34 mm D. 108.45 mm
45. A spur pinion rotates at 1800 rpm and transmits to a mating gear 30 hp. The
pitch diameter is 8 inches and the pressure angle is 14 ½. Determine the total load in
lbs.
A. 123.45 lbs B. 653.45 lbs C. 71.24 lbs D. 327.43 lbs
46. Find the Wahl factor of the spring having an inside diameter of 10 inches and
wire diameter r 0.75 in.
A. 1.056 B. 0.374 C. 1.863 D. 1.099
47. It is generally recommended and normal for a designer to add a hunting tooth to
evenly distribute the wear on meshing teeth like a 53 teeth gears mesh with 30 teeth
pinion. Find the rotation of pinion to mesh same pair of teeth again.
A. 120 B. 81 C. 61 D. 53
48. A spur pinion rotates at 1800 rpm and transmits to mating gear 30 HP. The pitch
diameter is 4" and the pressure angle is 14 1/2 . determine the tangential load in lbs.
A. 495 B. 525 C. 535 D. 475
49. A high alloy spring having squared and ground ends and has a total of 16 coils
and modulus of elasticity in shear of 85 Gpa. Compute the Wahl factor. The spring
outside diameter is 9.66 cm and wire diameter 0.65 cm.
A. 1.056 B. 1.10 C. 1.185 D. 1.2
50. Two idlers of 28 T and 26 T are introduced between the 24 T pinion with a
turning speed of 400 rpm driving a final 96T gear. What would be the final speed of
the driven gear and its direction relative to the driving gear rotation?
A. 120 rpm and opposite direction C. 80 rpm and same direction
B. 100 rpm and opposite direction D. 100 rpm and same
direction
51. A spur pinion supported on each side by ball bearings rotates 1750 rpm and
transmit to a mating gear at 25 Hp. The pressure angle is 20 degrees and the pitch
diameter is 5. Determine the tangential load in lbs.
A. 420 B. 300 C. 360 D. 400
52. The minimum clearance allowed for meshing spur gears with a circular pitch of
0.1571 and diametral pitch of 20. The spur gear has 25 teeth.
A. 0.007855 B. 0.008578 C. 0.007553 D. 0.007585
53. Compute the speed of the speed of the gear mounted on a 52.5 mm diameter
shaft receiving power from a driving motor with 250 hp.
A. 2182 rpm B. 2071 rpm C. 2282 rpm D. 2341 rpm
54. The minimum whole depth of spur gear of 4 1/2 deg involute type with diameter
pitch of 24 and circular pitch of 0.1309:
A. 0.09000 B. 0.09900 C. 0.089875 D. 0.089758
55. An internal gear is set up with a 5-in diameter pinion and center distance of 18
inches. Find the diameter of the internal gear.
A. 38" B. 21.5" C. 26" D. 41"
56. A coiled spring with 5 cm of outside diameter is required to work under the load
of 190 N with square and ground end. The wire diameter is 5 mm, the spring is to
have 6 active coils. The modulus of rigidity is 809 Gpa and the mean radius is to be
23 mm, with 7 mm pitch of the spring.
A. 6.5 coils B. 7.5 coils C. 8.5 coils D. 9.5 coils
57. A helical spring having squared and ground ends has a total of 18 coils and its
material has modulus of elasticity in shear of 78.910 Gpa. If the spring has an
outside diameter of 10.42 cm and a wire diameter 0.625 cm, compute the deflection
in the spring due to a load of 50 kgs.
A. 302 mm B. 490 mm C. 400 mm D. 322 mm
58. The tooth thickness a gear is 0.5 inch and its circular pitch is 1.0 inch. Calculate
the dedendum of the gear.
A. 0.3183 B. 1.250 C. 0.3979 D. 0.1114
59. Compute for the tooth thickness of 14 ½ spur gear with diameter pitch = 5.
A. 0.3979 B. 3.1831 C. 0.0314 D. 0.31416
60. Compute the circular pitch (in inch) of a pair of gears having, a ratio of 4 and a
center distance of 10.23. Each gear 2 teeth and pinion has 18 teeth.
A. 0.8095 B. 0.7825 C. 0.8035 D. 0.8085
61. A 36 tooth pinion with a running speed of 300 rpm drives 120 tooth gear of 14 Yz
degrees involute full depth pressure angle. What would be the speed of the driven
gear?
A. 1000 rpm B. 100 rpm C. 90 rpm D. 140 rpm
62. Find the tooth thickness on the tooth circle of a 20 degree full depth in volute
tooth having a diametral pitch of 3 circular pitch of 1.0472 and whole depth of tooth
at 0.60.
A. 10.7 mm B. 13.2 mm C. 10.1 mm D. 7.9 mm
63. A pair of gear ratio of 3 and 60 gear teeth of 14 1/2 degree full depth tooth. The
diametral pitch is 10. Compute the tooth thickness on the pitch circle.
A. 0.570 B. 0.352 inch C. 0.157 inch D. 0.142 inch
64. Compute the maximum deflection of a 20 coils helical spring having a load of 75
kgs. The spring is a square/ground ends with modulus of elasticity in shear of 79.84
Gpa outside diameter of 101.6 mm and wire diameter of 9.525 mm.
A. 140.7 mm B. 112.7 mm C. 15.17 mm D. 126.7 mm
65. A pair of gear/pinion of 42 tooth and 18 tooth with a diametral pitch of 0.7874
teeth/cm and the addendum is 0.8/p and dedendum 1/p. The gear pressure angle is
20°. Compute the center distance of the pair of gears in meters.
A. 0.5026 B. 0.3426 C. 0.3516 D. 0.4013
66. An internal gear requires an idler gear if the driving gear of 6 inches in diameter
and the center distance of the idler to the driver is 20 inches. What is the inside
diameter of the driven gear?
A. 62 in B. 70 in C. 974 in D. 81 in
67. A cut gear transmits 25 HP at a pitch line velocity of 6000 ft/min. If the service is
intermittent the dynamic load is:
A. 244 lb B. 264 lb C. 274 lb D. 284 lb
68. A precision gear transmits 25 HP at a pitch line velocity of 6000 ft/min. If the
service is intermittent
A. 244 lb B. 264 lb C. 274 lb D. 284 lb
69. An engine of a motor vehicle with a wheel diameter of 712 mm develops 50 KW
at 2,000 rpm. The combined efficiency of the differential and transmission is 75%
with an overall speed reduction of 25 is to 1. Determine the torque to be delivered by
the clutch in N-m.
A. 239 B. 359 C. 432 D. 471
70. An engine of a motor vehicle with a wheel diameter of 712 mm develops 50 KW
at 2,000 rpm. The combined efficiency of the differential and transmission is 75%
with an overall speed reduction of 25 is to 1. Determine the draw bar pull developed
in KN.
A. 13.40 KN B. 15.45 KN C. 14.55 KN D. 12.57 KN
71. An engine of a motor vehicle with a wheel diameter of 712 mm develops 50 KW
at 2,000 rpm. The combined efficiency of the differential and transmission is 75%
with an overall speed reduction of 25 is to 1. Determine the speed reduction of travel
of the vehicle in km/hr.
A. 10.74 B. 11.69 C. 12.58 D. 13.80
72. The smaller of two concentric helical springs is made of 22 mm diameter steel
spring and has an outside diameter of 100 mm with 10 active coils. The outer spring
is made of 32 mm steel spring and has an outside diameter of 250 mm with 8 active
coils. Before load is applied, the outer spring is 25 mm longer than the inner spring. If
the load is 90 KN is applied to this rest of springs. Find the rate of each spring.
A. 507.5 KN/m, 143.6 KN/m C. 493.8 KN/m, 126.5 KN/m
B..731.5 KN/m, 212.5 KN/m D. 976.1 KN/m, 318.8 KN/m

73. Calculate the wire diameter of a steel spring that could support a load of 50 kg.
Allowable working stress is 427 x 106 N/m2, the spring mean diameter is to be 44.45
mm and G = 79.3 Gpa.
A. 0.2106 in B. 0.3028 in C. 0.3924 in D. 0.6931 in .
74. A four wheel vehicle must develop a draw-bar pull of 17,500 lbs. The engine
which develops 500 hp and drives 500 hp and drives through a gear transmission a
34 tooth spiral bevel pinion gear which meshes with a spiral bevel gear having 51
teeth. This gear is keyed to the drive shaft of the 48 in diameter rear wheels of the
vehicle. What transmission gear ratio should be used if the engine develops
maximum torque at 1500 rpm? Note: the efficiency of the bevel gear differential is
80%.
A. 17.493:1 B. 16.667:1 C. 18.562:2 D. 11.492:2
75. A speed reduction gear box consist of an SAE 4140 steel pinion mounted to a
shaft on a 30 HP, 1750 rpm electric motor. The pinion drives a cast steel (with 0.25%
carbon) gear with a speed reduction of 5:1. Assuming 20 degrees involute stub teeth
and 16 teeth pinion, determine the pitch diameters.
A. 2.67, 13.35 in B. 3.23, 15.43 in C. 2.50, 16.61 in D. 2.45, 20.11 in
76. A pinion rotating at 1800 rpm and supported on each side by a ball bearing
transmit 18 KW to a mating spur gear. If the pressure angle is 20 degrees and pitch
diameter is 102 mm, determine the tangential load.
A. 3,231 in B. 2,244 N C. 1,320 N D. 1,583 N
77. Two shaft are connected by spur gears. The pitch radii of the gears A and B are
207 mm and 842 mm respectively. If shaft A makes 350 rpm and is subjected to
twisting moment of 236 N-m, what is the tooth pressure of the two gears.
A. 1177 N B. 1255 N C. 890 N D. 878 N
78. A semi-elliptic laminated spring is made of No. 10 BWG steel 2 inches wide. The
length between support is 26 ½ inches and the band is 2 ½ in wide. The spring has
two full-length and five graduated leaves. A central load of 350 lb is carried. Assume
that the distance from bolt torn end of band is 1/6 of the band width and plate
thickness is 0.314 inch.
A. Determine the maximum stress if each set of leaves for an initial condition
of no stress in the leaves.
Ans. Sf = 68,000 psi, Sg = 45,300 psi
B. Determine the maximum stress if initial stress is provided to cause equal
stresses when loaded. Ans. 51,900 psi
C. Determine the deflection in Part A.
Ans. 1.74 inches
79. A steel (σyield = 200 MPa) pressure tank is designed to hold pressure up to 7
Mpa. The tank is cylindrical with a diameter of 1 m. If the longitudinal stress must be,
less than 20% of the yield stress of the steel, what is the necessary wall thickness, t?
A. 22 mm B. 44 mm C. 88 mm D. 120 mm
80. In designing a cylindrical pressure tank 1 m in diameter, a factor of safety of 2.5
is used. The cylinder is made of steel (σyield= 200 MPa), and will contain pressures
up to 7 Mpa. What is the required wall thickness, t, based on circumferential stress
considerations?
A. 2mm B. 44 mm C. 88 mm D. 120 mm